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25 YEARS AGO IN THE LIBRARIES

NOTABLES

• Rebecca Payne assumed her new position as Japanese Studies and General Reference librarian Oct. 1. Payne joined UW-Madison Libraries as project manager of the Digital Asia Library in January 2001. Previously, she worked as graduate assistant at the University of Illinois, Urbana, in Central Reference Services in the Main Library and as program coordinator of the Asian Educational Media Service of the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies. She holds a master's degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois, Urbana; a master's degree in East Asian Studies from the University of Pittsburgh; and a bachelor's degree in Japanese Studies from Bates College in Maine. She studied at the International Christian University and Tohoku University as a Japan Program Scholar of the Rotary Foundation.
• Kerry Gleason took home the first Wendy Woodfill Scholarship Oct. 30 at the Wisconsin Library Association SLIS Alumni reception. The $3,000 award recognizes specialists in children's literature and collection development. Teresa Kittridge, managing director of Picture Window Books, a Minneapolis publisher, and SLIS alumnae Wendy Woodfill, a member of the Picture Window Books board, presented the award to Gleason, a current SLIS student and assistant to Abbie Loomis in GLS's Information Literacy Office.
  

• Catherine Vitale has moved to the Chemistry Library from User Services in Memorial Library. As assistant stacks manager Vitale oversaw student assistants and helping to ensure that the stacks were maintained in an orderly fashion. Sources say they will miss her quiet efficiency, but wish her all the best on her new duties.
• Susan Barribeau is now Electronic Resources coordinator (formerly interim). Barribeau is a liaison between the various library divisions and staff responsible for acquiring and providing access to electronic resources and is also a liaison with CIC and CUWL collection development consortia. She chairs the Electronic Resources Policy Committee, is a member of the Usage Statistics Working Group, and serves on the Allocation Committee. Barribeau is also responsible for arranging trials and evaluation of electronic products. She will continue as Web site manager for the Libraries.
• Wayne R. Hayes will start Dec. 1 as project manager for Portal to Asian Internet Resources. Since August 2000, Hayes has acted as LearningLanguages.Net French editor for the Computer Sciences Department's Internet Scout Project. He has also worked as an instructor for the Department of French and Italian. From 1993 to 2000, Hayes held several positions in Central Technical Services in Memorial Library. He earned bachelor's degrees in philosophy and English literature from the University of Minnesota-Duluth; a master's. in French literature from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities; and a master's in library science and a doctorate in French literature from UW-Madison.
  

• The College of Engineering recognized the contributions of Leonard Black, Wisconsin TechSearch director, Oct. 18, with the 2002 Bollinger Academic Staff Distinguished Achievement Award. WTS is Wendt Library's information outreach program. Each year, Black and his staff field about 35,000 inquiries from manufacturers, chemical companies, law firms, and many other organizations. Often these requests come as rush or super-rush orders, but as many clients will affirm, Black and his staff do an unparalleled job of delivering complete answers on deadline. Under Black's leadership, WTS's annual revenue has more than quadrupled from $190,000 to more than $1 million in 2002.
  - Link to Wisconsin TechSearch
  
• John Wanserski, Wendt Library deputy director, delivered a presentation at the 2002 Virtual Reference Desk Conference in Chicago Nov. 12. The talk, titled "Persistently Virtual at the University of Wisconsin-Madison," explored the development and customization of Convey Systems' OnDemand software at the UW. Wanserski covered product design; hardware and software environments; technical support; operator training; public relations strategies; user feedback mechanisms; quality control; and statistics.
  - Link to 2002 Virtual Reference Desk Conference Web site
• Rhonda Sager joined Health Sciences Libraries Nov. 18 as the new circulation supervisor. Currently located at Middleton Health Sciences Library, this position was created as a collaborative effort across the three Health Sciences Libraries and written with the future merger in mind. Sager will oversee the circulation unit at MHSL and coordinate activities with other HSL units and campus libraries. She supervises a number of classified employees and 20 to 30 student assistants. She will also oversee course reserves activities at MHSL, coordinate stacks management projects, serve as point person for direct patron services and help coordinate ongoing and upcoming services related to circulation.

LIBRARY NEWS

• UW-Madison's Wisconsin Primate Research Center Library and Information Service now houses an invaluable collection of research data on rhesus monkey families thanks to a generous donation in the name of the late June Northrop Barker, a research physiologist at New York University.
  - Link to read the full story
  
  
• Walk into Memorial Library. Find a call number on the chart inside the elevator and ride up to a floor. Go to the stacks and—voilá!—there are books about the very subject you seek. It's simple, really, and it's what we expect of our libraries. But what it takes to get those books on those shelves is anything but simple.
  
  UW-Madison Libraries staffers already know how complex maintaining the university's millions of volumes is. However, Wisconsin Week shed light on the process for those not in the know in a Nov. 6 article.
  - Enjoy an expanded version of the original story
  
  
• The adorable faces of Libraries staffers' Dane County Humane Society-adopted pets are appearing throughout the Libraries. Dan Joe, Library Communications, designed the third annual GLS Poster Pets placard. As a side note, the Dane County Humane Society is an organization included in the ongoing Partners in Giving campaign.
  - Link to view the poster
  

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SNAPSHOTS

In which campus library can you find this image? Please send your answers to Don Johnson, Library Communications, via e-mail. The source of the mystery photo will be revealed in the next newsletter. Photo by Erin J. Buege, Library Communications.

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PUBLISHED

• Yvonne Schofer, Memorial Library, co-wrote an article on Special Collections' Little Magazine Collection for the Nov. 21 issue of Serials Review. The Little Magazine Collection is made up of literary journals and magazines on trends in art, society, and politics. Schofer and Barbara Richards, Special Collections, write a regular column on the collection called "Little Magazine Interview Index" for Serials Review.
  - Link to Little Magazine Collection page
  
  
• David Null, UW Archives and Records Management Service, wrote an article for the November/December issue of ExtraOrdinary Reflections, the newsletter of the Bombay Bicycle Club of Madison Inc. An avid cyclist, Null collected information for the article during the course of his work at Memorial Library. The work contains a historical look at bicycles and biking, specifically in Madison.
  - Link to Bombay Bicycle Web site
  
  
• Karen Rosneck, Memorial CTS Acquisitions and Serials, recently contributed material on Slavic topics in two publications. Along with working for the Libraries, Rosneck acts as a writer and Slavic literature translator. She wrote an article for the UW System's summer 2002 issue of Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources titled "Serial Publications of the Russian Women's Movement." She was also published in Russian Women, 1698-1917: Experience and Expression, An Anthology of Sources, a book published in October by Indiana University Press. Most recently, The Boarding-School Girl, a book Rosneck translated from Russian, annotated and wrote an introduction for, was reviewed by the prestigious Slavic and East European Journal.

25 YEARS AGO IN THE LIBRARIES

• From Dec. 16, 1977, courtesy of Sandy Pfahler, GLS Administration retiree: "The Social Committee is going to try selling coffee at 15 cents a cup effective this coming Monday, Dec. 19, 1977. If we cannot meet our rising costs by doing this, we will have to curtail the supplies such as cream and sugar."
  

QUOTATION

"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow